Re: mouse problems....

2010-10-12 Thread Arthur Chance
On 10/11/10 18:31, Polytropon wrote: [snip] The psm device can be configured per /etc/rc.conf using moused. While USB mice get configured by the USB subsystem automatically, PS/2 and serial mice do not. Here's an example entry: moused_enable=YES moused_port=/dev/psm0

Re: Xorg 7.5 and OpenMotif: mouse stuck in box

2010-10-12 Thread Giuseppe Pagnoni
Dear William, excellent! The patch you pointed me to works for me too. Thank you so much for your help, I am going to send an email to the port maintainers to see whether they can fix this in the ports tree. very best giuseppe On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 6:43 PM, William Bulley w...@umich.edu

Re: Troubles on SATA drives ZFS

2010-10-12 Thread Ivan Voras
On 10/11/10 21:22, Alejandro Imass wrote: 1) Would damage to the 2 disks cause damae on the other 2? Not likely but in your situation it might damage the controller, in which nothing you do to the drives will help. In the worst case, the controller then might in turn damage the drives.

FBSD on MacBook Pro w/ Core 2 Duo? (was Re: Which OS for notebook)

2010-10-12 Thread Jud
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 10:20 -0500, Brandon Gooch jamesbrandongo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Arvid Warnecke arvid.warne...@gmail.com wrote: I have been thinking about FreeBSD on the Macbook Pro dual booting (I need Mac OSX for photography software), but I am not sure if

Re: FBSD on MacBook Pro w/ Core 2 Duo? (was Re: Which OS for notebook)

2010-10-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 12/10/2010 12:39:59, Jud wrote: My reading on the FreeBSD website appears to indicate that the correct 64-bit version for the Core 2 Duo would be ia-64 Wrong. amd64 Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard

Re: FBSD on MacBook Pro w/ Core 2 Duo? (was Re: Which OS for notebook)

2010-10-12 Thread Nathan Vidican
ia64 is for Intel Itanium - NOT Core 2 Duo. The core 2 duo extends it's 64 bit instructions from the Intel EMT64 extensions. You can read up on this topic further at Wikipedia if you'd like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMT64#Intel_64 To summarize though - AMD64 is the platform you're looking

Re: FBSD on MacBook Pro w/ Core 2 Duo? (was Re: Which OS for notebook)

2010-10-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 07:39:59AM -0400, Jud wrote: Here's an excellent place to start your research: http://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleMacbook I've got a 13 MacBook Pro, version 5,5 specifically, with an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU and 4GB RAM (and a 256GB SSD, though I'm reasonably sure that's

Re: Troubles on SATA drives ZFS

2010-10-12 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:59 AM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: On 10/11/10 21:22, Alejandro Imass wrote: 1) Would damage to the 2 disks cause damae on the other 2? Not likely but in your situation it might damage the controller, in which nothing you do to the drives will help. In the

Re: Troubles on SATA drives ZFS

2010-10-12 Thread Ivan Voras
On 12 October 2010 15:30, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:59 AM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: On 10/11/10 21:22, Alejandro Imass wrote: 1) Would damage to the 2 disks cause damae on the other 2? Not likely but in your situation it might damage the

Re: Sacred Gold (Linux) on FBSD

2010-10-12 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:59:59 + Mikle Krutov wrote: Has anyone had a positive experience with subj? As for me, it loads till the first load-screen state 'Ready' and hangs there. Nothing dumps in console. /var/log/messages may give some additional info as well as a terminal window. Any

Re: mouse problems....

2010-10-12 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 08:43:43AM +0100, Arthur Chance wrote: On 10/11/10 18:31, Polytropon wrote: [snip] The psm device can be configured per /etc/rc.conf using moused. While USB mice get configured by the USB subsystem automatically, PS/2 and serial mice do not. Here's an example entry:

Re: mouse problems....

2010-10-12 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 08:43:43 +0100, Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: On 10/11/10 18:31, Polytropon wrote: [snip] The psm device can be configured per /etc/rc.conf using moused. While USB mice get configured by the USB subsystem automatically, PS/2 and serial mice do not. Here's

Re: mouse problems....

2010-10-12 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 08:48:07 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: I didn't realize how nice a GUI can be until I discovered the xterm! At any rate, my mouse+keyboard are both USB. Still not working with X Then you should check the typical (oh god!) HAL + DBUS

vlc install problems

2010-10-12 Thread Dánielisz László
Hi, I'm trying to install vlc player on my FreeBSD 8.1 and I always got the following error: gmake[3]: *** [gvloadimage_gd.lo] Error 1 gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/graphics/graphviz/work/graphviz-2.26.3/plugin/gd' gmake[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory

Re: vlc install problems

2010-10-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dánielisz László laszlo_daniel...@yahoo.com writes: I'm trying to install vlc player on my FreeBSD 8.1 and I always got the following error: gmake[3]: *** [gvloadimage_gd.lo] Error 1 gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/graphics/graphviz/work/graphviz-2.26.3/plugin/gd' gmake[2]: ***

Re: vlc install problems

2010-10-12 Thread Dánielisz László
It seems to be that is working, thank you! From: Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org To: Dánielisz László laszlo_daniel...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; din...@freebsd.org Sent: Tue, October 12, 2010 11:22:06 PM Subject: Re: vlc

Re: mouse problems....

2010-10-12 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:10:20PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 08:43:43 +0100, Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: On 10/11/10 18:31, Polytropon wrote: [snip] The psm device can be configured per /etc/rc.conf using moused. While USB mice get configured by the USB

Re: mouse problems....

2010-10-12 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:30:02 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: The guy who set up my KVM/mouse deal thinks I would be better off just having a service do my hosting; I am close to agreeing. It it possible that you recently had mail problems? When fetchmail'ing today's bunch

Re: mouse problems....

2010-10-12 Thread Gary Kline
New issues below... On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 01:43:26AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:30:02 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: The guy who set up my KVM/mouse deal thinks I would be better off just having a service do my hosting; I am close to

Re: mouse problems....

2010-10-12 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:20:18 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: I just looked at the handbook 2.10.10 Mouse Settings I am running 7.2 on the server, not that old, but the text does not match what I see on my sysinstall screen. // cut and paste This

Re: mouse problems....

2010-10-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 05:59:06AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:20:18 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Will you please check out this posting: http://osdir.com/ml/freebsd.bugs/2002-03/msg00032.html The way that the mose config worked as to turn